Re: Can NFS over FDDI work properly?

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From: Bob_Wise
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 17:19

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In article <mbt.717889082@Able.MKT.3Com.Com> mbt@ESD.3Com.COM (Brad Turner) writes:
>rmwise@mcigate.apdev.mci.com (Bob_Wise) writes:
>>
>>I've been following this packet-fragmentation-when-using-NFS-over-FDDI
>>thread with some interest.

   ... blah blah blah...

>Bob, et.al.,
>   If you have the opportunity to to design a net from the ground up
>I'd suggest you look at using routing *IF* you will be spanning
>multiple media (fddi, ethernet, tokenring). When you start trying


I appreciate these words of advice, but I was really curious what the
issues were when NOT spanning several media types.

For example, two machines, FDDI only, doing NFS mounts from each other.

Are there packet sizing issues given this scenario?

-Bob
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From: rmwise@mcigate.apdev.mci.com (Bob_Wise)
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Subject: Re: Can NFS over FDDI work properly?
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Date: 6 Oct 92 17:19:41 GMT
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